“The past … I forgot?” The older Starscream questioned, and took a step as his other self pulled him along in the darkness.
“Yes …” Whispered the younger Starscream. “When you first joined the Decepticons, you and I were one in the same … for the most part.”
Windows had appeared in the void now as the young Starscream spoke. It was only a few seconds later that the Older Starscream realised they were memories … memories, of a very complex past …
“Then somehow we split.”
The older one stopped, staring at his own hauntingly familiar face, which held a sad look at him.
“ But now …” He said, continuing to walk down the unseen path though their memories. “I must make you remember everything.”
“Why?” The older one asked, confused.
“Because you and I were once one, and now it is time to become one again … but we can only do that if I make you understand why you are the way you are …”
“I’m confused!” The older one burst out, not understanding himself. He suddenly caught onto that thought and almost hit himself.
The younger version of himself walked over to him, and touched his cheek.
“You will understand …”
All went black.

Dark bodies floating in darkness
No sign of light ever given
Imprisoned in a world with every* memory
Unconscious or am I conscious?
Cut from the heart I am part of
Sometimes I feel as though I'm frozen in Heaven

And I saw my own face in the dark and loneliness
And I saw my own face like a spark frozen in Heaven

A picture formed in front of his optics … he became aware that someone was holding his hand, and saw it was the younger version of himself, by his side. They had slipped into a memory … of a day at school, in one of the classrooms …

“Skyfire!”
The very young voice sounded as clear though Starscream’s audio receptors as if he was back at the scene. A small transformer, about half the size of himself, had entered though the door to their right and was running towards the bright white form of his friend and teacher, Skyfire, who was sitting at his desk. He then realized in the next second that it was he, many many years ago …
“Starscream!” Skyfire called back, laughing as the little seeker who jumped up onto his desk, looking very happy about something.
“I just flew around the world!” He said happily. “It was so much fun! Seeing all the places and people … I never knew just how big our cities were from the text books!”
“Now, now Starscream,” Skyfire said, standing and picking up his student from the desk and placing him on the floor. “You should not be going out and about when you have homework to do.”
“I know that,” The little seeker protested, “But it’s so big and beautiful …” His voice took on a wistful tone and his optics grew big at the thought of his home planet.
Skyfire chuckled, “I have never had such a curious student in all my years!” He reached out and tapped his student’s head. ** “You are truly one of a kind …”
Starscream took the big white hand in his own and looked pleadingly at his teacher … his friend, “When I’m bigger, can we go exploring together? To those other places and planets?”
Skyfire placed his other hand over his student’s, “We’ll have to see …”

The memory faded after that, soon leaving the two Starscream’s in darkness again. Not for long though, for another memory appeared …

It was nighttime, out the back of his home in one of the great cities. He was sitting with his best friends Thundercracker and Skywarp in front of an energon fire, telling stories from the past …
“And then,” Thundercracker chortled, “And then he says, ‘But why Thundy? Why did he have to die?!’ And I was like ‘You idiot! He’s still alive!’ and all he said was ‘How can you be sure?’ and I said, ‘you can feel his fuel pump you moron!’”
The three little seekers burst out laughing at this predicament. It would only be funny to them, and no one else.
“What a dope!” Skywarp said, sitting up, having fallen over from laughter. “Even I’m smarter than that, if that’s saying something.”
“Hey guys,” Starscream said, also sitting up. “Lets make a promise! To always be together, no matter what.”
“Hehe, okay Screamer!” Thundercracker answered, and held out his hand, as did Skywarp and Starscream.
“To always be together!”

Consumed with memories,
that proceeded to die.
Given a chance to bereave,
life that's slipping away.
Suffered through tragedy,
dragged my soul away.

The memory also faded, to be replaced by a much sadder one … a day in which Starscream would rather forget …

The snow was very thick that fell from the sky, yes indeed. Starscream knew that this planet was dangerous, but now was the perfect example of it.
“Skyfire!” Starscream shouted over the gale, only just able to see his companion in the storm. “We’ve got to get out of here!”
“I cant control myself – AAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!” Skyfire’s yell echoed over the com.
“Skyfire!” The seeker screamed, but yelled also as he was thrown into a hillside. He passed out after a few seconds …

When he awoke, he was back in robot mode. He must’ve transformed after the crash, but his thoughts were squashed by the biggest problem he now faced: where was Skyfire?
He jumped up, trying to keep thoughts of his friend’s potential death out of his head.
He flew. He flew for hours and hours … circling the globe many times, searching for any sign of him before his energy readings became too low to continue. But he didn’t want to give up, but his engines protested too much for him to continue …
He fell to the ground on all fours, staring at the white ice that had claimed his teacher, his companion, his one true friend …
He pounded the ice with a fist, slamming his optics shut, not wanting to accept that his friend was gone. No, he can’t be gone! I cant live without you … you were my role model … like a father to me …
Tears of energon ran down his face, dropping lurid pink prints on the ice, freezing it instantly.
“Skyfire …” He whimpered out, unable to stem the flow of tears coming down his face …
“Skyfire …”
“SKYFIRE!!!!!!!!!!”

He did not have a clear idea of how he got back, but his landing was not a pleasant one. But he found that it no longer mattered. Skyfire was gone … he had not saved him …
He no longer cared for anything, anymore …

Crawling in my skin,
These wounds they will not heal
Fear is how I fall
Confusing what is real

The memory faded, and Starscream found that he had tears running down his face. That was the day his life had changed forever more, a day that would only live on in his nightmares. He took a shaky breath and saw that his younger self was outright sobbing, and he wondered why. After all, he was the one who had shown him the memory, so why did he do it if he knew it would break him up so?
“Why do you weep?” The older one asked.
The younger one looked up, tears glistening on his face still and answered, “Because that day was the day we split. It was the day that I would be locked away forever … and I had never felt so trapped within myself. But you did not care, you did not know …”
He walked up to his older self, and touched his face, “Don’t you see? We’ve been though so much, braved so many dangers together, been there for one another even though you didn’t know it. We are one, Starscream, and I promise I will help you regain the self confidence you used to have.”
Starscream looked into his very own optics, and saw the emotions there. Hurt, betrayal, and forgiveness …
He nodded, “Lets fix that bastard and put things right.”
The younger one smiled. “That’s the spirit.”
And he reached forward, and kissed himself.
Everything was blinded by light. The light of a re-awakened spirit …

All that is dead
Around me
Lifeless in the way of catastrophe
Burning in my mind I am not deceived
Judgement into my own mortality

Now that the soul is free
I sever ties of man and machine
Now that the soul is free
I’ve bled my heart of all it can bleed

I lit the spark
Ignited the fuse
Destroyed the lies
And saw absolute truth
From out of darkness and into the light
The future is wide open and is all in my sight

Songs - Invisible Wounds (the Suture Mix) By Fear Factory, Ressurection (Big TLA Mix) by Fear Factory, Crawling by Linkin Park and Terminate by Fear Factory. All in order of appearence.

* Lyrics changed

** In this scene, I wanted to have Skyfire ruffle starscream's hair, but of course, TF's dont have hair. So its akin to it okays?